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Fernandez Arman was born in Nice in 1928 where he attended the École des Arts decoratifs and subsequently completed his studies in Paris at The École du Louvre. His first works were purely figurative until the end of the 1950s when he began to include elements in his works. objects. It was 1959 when he came across a drawer full of used light bulbs which would mark the beginning of a new way of painting where the object became the central element of the work. He assembles the light bulbs as best he can and displays them like a painting: thus the first of them is born Accumulations. The first ones appeared in 1963 Combustions where the interest in fire infects numerous artists. Combustions often concern musical instruments, mainly violins, which Arman drowned in a fusion of plexiglas in parallelepiped-shaped blocks. In the 1970s he replaced plexiglas with concrete from which the most disparate objects emerged: thus the Cements. In the 80s the series of Fragmentations: the most disparate objects – from shoes to books to musical instruments – are dissected and glued onto a support, canvas or wood, and often covered with traces of paint. From the mid-1980s he began creating monumental outdoor sculptures for public and private bodies, culminating in 1999 with The Rampant, a powerful red-patinated bronze casting of Ferrari cars, cut and superimposed, installed in front of the entrance to the Imola racing circuit. He died in 2005 in New York. On his grave is his mocking epitaph “Finally alone”.
